Rachel Frances Russell Crowe

Rachel Frances Russell Crowe, 96, from Columbus, Georgia, went to her eternal home, December 12, 2018 at her daughter’s home in Tallapoosa, Georgia. Visitation for family and friends will be at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 22, at Striffler-Hamby Mortuary, Columbus, Georgia. Funeral Services will begin at 12:10 p.m. and burial will follow at Parkhill Cemetery.

Mrs. Crowe was born August 24, 1922, in Briar Hill, Montgomery County, Alabama, daughter of Absalom Leonie and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Ward Russell. Mrs. Crowe resided in Columbus from 1941 until moving to an assisted living facility in Buchanan, Georgia in 2014. Mrs. Crowe retired from Sears Roebuck and Company and Gayfer’s in Columbus, Georgia. Before moving to Buchanan, she was an active member of the Edgewood Church of Christ, Columbus, Georgia.

She is preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Clifton Raymond Crowe and granddaughter, Carson Jane Patterson and six brothers. Survivors include her five daughters, Zona R. Hess of Tallapoosa, Georgia, Sherry A. Atkinson (Bill) of Pensacola, Florida, Patty J. Chaplin (Guy) of Ellerslie, Georgia, Dona F. Greene Crowe of Columbus, Georgia, Bonita Buttine (Jack) of New York, New York, and a son, William Raymond Crowe of Los Angeles, California, nine grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren and her 104 year old brother, Obie L. Russell. Her family was her pride and joy. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Mother taught us love. “Her children rise up and call her blessed….” Proverbs 31:28

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